It’s Pi Day — the possibilities are infinite!
Our friend and colleague Gina Smith at tech news and analysis site anewdomain.net is many things: a journalist, an entrepreneur, a bon vivant … and a big math nerd. She shot us an urgent note to remind us that today — 3/14 — is Pi Day.
Pi, of course, is the number you get when you calculate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (duh!). It’s a number with infinite places, but mostly rounded off (for those high school geometry problems) as 3.14. Thus today’s celebration.
In S.F., the folks at San Francisco’s Exploratorium annually celebrate this mathematical marvel, one, Smith points out, that the Babylonians, Egyptians and even the Bible mention several centuries before the ancient Greek Archimedes of Syracuse began successfully promoting it around 260 B.C.
“The Exploratorium folks do a pi dance, do pi beading, have a pi channel, a pi shrine,” Gina says in an annual post on her site. (We think there’s actual pie on hand, too.) “It’s just a little out of hand — but if you love math, you love Pi Day.”
http://blog.seattlepi.com/techchron/2013/03/14/it%E2%80%99s-pi-day-%E2%80%94-the-possibilities-are-infinite/
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